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Remote
Senior
Full Time
Engineering ManagerDistributed SystemsPythonGoRemoteCloudQuality Engineering
Requirements
- •Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- •Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers
- •Professional software engineering experience with Python or Go
- •Expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, quality engineering, or a closely related domain
- •Strong knowledge of modern software testing processes, strategies, and automation
- •Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
- •Strong technical judgement and ability to engage in code reviews, architecture discussions, and software design
- •Experience working in an agile development environment
- •Professional written and spoken English with excellent communication and presentation skills
- •Great interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- •Ability to travel twice a year for company events up to two weeks each
What You'll Do
- •Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of software and quality engineers
- •Set clear expectations, strengthen engineering practices, and ensure timely delivery against agreed goals
- •Partner with senior engineers to shape technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, and engineering standards
- •Guide the development of automated testing infrastructure for the reliability, interoperability, and resilience of distributed systems
- •Improve CI pipelines, testing tools, and reporting used to validate Canonical's products and solutions across bare-metal, private and public cloud environments
- •Enable engineering teams across Canonical to adopt effective distributed-systems testing practices and tooling
- •Contribute technical leadership through design and code reviews, debugging, and hands-on engineering where appropriate
- •Represent the team with stakeholders and collaborate across Canonical on quality engineering, infrastructure, and developer experience
Nice to Have
- •Experience with cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Juju, Terraform, AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
- •Designing testing strategies for distributed or cloud-native systems
- •Building or operating large-scale CI/CD and test infrastructure
- •Applying AI or machine learning to test analysis, failure classification, or engineering workflows
- •Deploying, operating, or debugging distributed systems
- •Leading globally distributed teams
Benefits
- •Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- •Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- •Annual compensation review
- •Recognition rewards
- •Annual holiday leave
- •Maternity and paternity leave
- •Employee Assistance Programme and wellness support
- •Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- •Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
About Canonical
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, delivers trusted open source for everyone and provides security, support and services to enterprises.
London, UK
1000 - 5000
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